Route Masters documentary won’t stop my road rage

Route Masters may have intended to arouse our sympathy for those who keep our streets moving – it didn’t (Picture: Rexmail)

TV review: At a guess you’d have thought that sorting out the daily frenzy on London’s roads was a pretty thankless task.

And so it turned out on The Route Masters: Running London’s Roads (BBC2), which crawled around the capital’s clogged-up traffic arteries meeting the genial blokes whose daily round takes in everything from panic attacks in the Blackwall Tunnel to dreaming up diversions when a crisis strikes.

You could see the general idea: show how hard everybody is working behind the scenes to keep everything moving, so that next time you’re caught up in a traffic jam, late for work and getting stressed, you’ll recall the show and feel just a touch more chilled than you would have done before.

As if. Getting wound up on the daily commute – and taking it out on the cone brigade – is bred in the bone of modern life.